Joseph Chevalier, Sr. ¹

  In his life:

• He immigrated from Canada in 1859 to Detroit, Michigan Territory. ³

• Joseph was counted in the 1870 US census for Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁴ Page 13.

• In 1870 he lived in Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁴

• He worked, in 1870, as a farmer in Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁴

• He purchased 78.27 acres of land on 1 June 1874 in Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁵
Homestead Certificate No. 1864
Application 3615

"...the north half of the south west quarter, of Section Eighteen, in Township one hundred and nineteen, of Range twenty-six, in the district of lands subject to sale at Litchfield in Minnesota, containing seventy-eight acres and twenty-seven hundredths of an acre."

His name is spelled Chevallier on the certificate.

• In 1875 he lived in Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁶

• Joseph was counted in the 1875 Minnesota census for Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota. ⁶ Page 283.

• In 1880 he lived in Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁷

• He worked, in 1880, as a farmer in Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁷

• Joseph was counted in the 1880 US census for Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁷ ED 24, SD 2, Page 31A.
Enumerated as Shevelei.

• He purchased 160 acres of land on 13 April 1883 in Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁵ Land Office at Benson
Homestead Certificate No. 5392
Application 9904 and 7009

"...the west half of the south-west quarter and the west half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-two in township one hundred and twenty-three north of range forty west of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Minnesota, containing one hundred and sixty acres"

• In 1885 he lived in Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁸

• He was counted in the 1885 Minnesota census for Hoff Township, Pope, Minnesota. ⁸ Page 3.

• From 1898 to 1904 he lived in Clontarf Township, Swift, Minnesota. ^{1 2}

• Joseph was counted in the 1900 US census for Clontarf Township, Swift, Minnesota. ² SD 134, ED 269, Sheet 3a

Joseph married Odile Goulet, daughter of Louis Goulet, Sr. and Marie Robichaud, on 18 November 1845. (Odile Goulet was born on 16 January 1826 in St. Jaques de L'achigan, Montcalm, Quebec ^{9 10} and died in 1910 ¹.)